Mounties held interest in occupy Ottawa movement

According to the CBC, recently released documents show that the Royal Canadian Mounties collected a file on the occupy Ottawa movement.

The file shows that the Mounties were very interested in the protest, including intensively searching though social media and questioning campus security after a meeting was held at the University of Ottawa.

Notes also show that the Mounties planned on using cameras for surveillance of the Confederation Park protest, but ultimately decided against it.

Though it has been 14 months since the police removed Occupy Ottawa protestors from Confederation Park, information about their observation methods are only now coming to light thanks to an access-to-information request from the Canadian Press.

The one month occupation of the park resulted in many complaints and concerns about rats, drugs, and sexual assault.

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STORY WRITTEN BY: NIKITA SMITH